Yay!
First time I got called nuts here (albeit in a group)!

*proud of myself*

This goes to my Ex-Bosses:

You cheapskates stuck us in a building that has no ventilation! I'm not even talking about air-conditioning (which you have installed in your own office, of course), I'm talking about fucking AIR!

And instead of apologizing, you say we can just open the window. No we bloody can't, because you've planted us right next to the most highly frequented highway in all of Europe.

Traffic tests have proven that 220.000 CARS DRIVE PAST MY WINDOW EVERY DAY!!!

We're so close that I can read the number plates on them and it DRIVES ME CRAZY.

And that's not even all of it. You okayed the building and never noticed that the southern side of it doesn't have any blinds. My coworkers stuck packaging paper on the windows so the sun doesn't hit their computer screens. Yeah, that looks great!

And, you blithering idiots, we're the only newspaper building that doesn't have a single room for us to hold interviews in. Not one single room.
You've stuck us in the middle of nowhere, where it takes us three quarters of an hour just to get to the nearest coffee house, and you don't give us a single representable interviewing room? And yet you say: "You need to go out more, telephone interviews are crap".

What d'you want me to do, hold my interview in the salmonella-infested pub next door? Or in the supermarket aisle? Huh?

Oh, and by the way, having 50 journalists sitting in one room is not "good for the communication" and you know it, so quit lying, you cost cutting bastard. 50 journalists jabbering into their receivers at the same time is my version of corporate hell, but that is something that you in your airconditioned quiet private office do not give a damn about.

I am not even talking about the fact that the cheap-o door closing mechanism and the elevators were broken within the first month.

And I know why you did it.
I know.

Because I now hear that after you quit your job with us one of you started his new function in the management board of the exact building company that sold us this building.

And the other one joined our greatest competitor, and I hope he's going to stuff a broompole up your arse as is his wont, Mr. "I need to quit for health reasons."

You bastards.

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Originally posted by BeeZee:
The hotel I worked at had a rule....no signature on the timecard- with it properly filled in- no paycheck.

heehee, talking from the other end of the situation...
At my previous work we had to sign in at the beginning of our shifts and out at the end. If we forgot one day, we wouldn't get that paid -we could claim it back, but only Tuesdays from 5 to 6... Ha, now I imagine the girl in the office complaining like you guys do, coz I used to forget to sign in and out and then demanded my monay, and she probably hated me. But...

That system is crap. Sorry, I understand there has to be some way to do these things, but, first of all, be a little fucking sympathetic for people who forget to sign in and out -coz when you've finished work at 3.30 AM, after sweeping and mopping and polishing so much cutlery your hand's going to die, and you have to still wait 30 minutes more for the taxi to arrive, which will then take 40 minutes to take you home, and you have to get up at 8 the next day to come back again to this stinking place, it's very likely you'll forget, sometimes, to sign in and out.
But more importantly, it pissed me to no end that duty managers used to go through the signing sheet to check no one had signed out later than they had actually finished -so sometimes they would correct your signing out time 15 mintes if they thought ou'd finished then. But if you forgot to ign in one day, they would not correct that!! Cheap bastards!!
And, dedicating one hour a week to sort that kind of stuff out was plain mean -coz you're either working at that time (and thus unable to go to the office) or you're not, and you all know we live at least 30 minutes form the town you're based in, so I have to ride a bus for 45 minutes to go there and ask for my money that I deserve coz I work damn hard?? Again, cheap bastards!!

Clover, I was just a waitress and bartender there.
And sure, sometimes it was tiredness leading to forgetfulness, but usually it was the same people who just didn't give fuck-all about doing what they should.
Thank God for a couple of things.
1. Supervisors who would check ove timecards if they had time and make sure they were signed and tips claimed. (The tip thing is the law here).
2. It is against the law for any supervisory person to change a timecard without the employee's express permission and signature.
3. The hotel was on campus, in the middle of every bus line and highway around. Easy commute for everyone.
So *hugs* I'm sorry you ended up with the bad boss thing. I've been ther, but it's not all like that.

(Just realise,d the swearing and bitchy tone were directed at the employers, not anyone here!)
I see Beezee. It's just my employees were bad -I still can't get over it, how they would ensure you didn't get more money than you had to, but they didn't give a fuck if got less than you deserved. Also, they still owe me 20 hors worth of tips, coz they delegated that to the floor managers, who already had a lot on their minds, and the office never told them about my 10 hours extra and "someone" forgot to tell them about the 10 hours I worked my last week there, I was conveniently abroad at the time... )

I knew it wasn't aimed at anyone else. And it sounds like a truly fucked situation.

*more hugs*

A bad work situation when waitressing can be all kinds of hell.

Dear people on the speculative fiction forum (not this one) who critique stuff I wrote:

I really appreciate that you took the time to respond.
However.

"Show, don't tell" is not a useful response. It is a knee jerk reaction. A catch phrase coined by some english lector no doubt.

Unless you follow it up by some example I have no idea how to do what you suggest.

So don't tell me about it, show me where I'm erring! Follow your own advice!

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If you're going to install a new till-system at work...make sure ...make TOTALLY sure that it WORKS before you switch over to it...

If the whole damn thing goes down in the middle of the day - leaving us with NO FUNCTIONING TILLS in the whole store...even if it's not your fault (which, to grant my boss some slack, it really wasn't) have the deceny to shut down and send us home until you fix it instead of making us all revert to running everything manually in a store that is NOT equipped to do so..

Because of your refusal to do so, I'm twice as sore and tired and stressed out at the end of shift as usual...missed my swing dance because I was too exhausted to stand up...crashed into bed at 7pm and woke up at 11 and now can't sleep at all because my freakin' sleep schedule's all out of whack...

Technology...ugh

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Originally posted by onions:
Dear people on the speculative fiction forum (not this one) who critique stuff I wrote:

I really appreciate that you took the time to respond.
However.

"Show, don't tell" is not a useful response. It is a knee jerk reaction. A catch phrase coined by some english lector no doubt.

Unless you follow it up by some example I have no idea how to do what you suggest.

So don't tell me about it, show me where I'm erring! Follow your own advice!

I just have to say -- right on. Especially the last two sentences of this. I definitely could not have said that better.

*really wishes he could copy/paste that to almost all his former peer editors*

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Dear Darling, totally fecking USELESS Queen's Film THeatre I have a suggestion for you.

If you have a web listing, and you have a film listed as starting at 9.30, and this is wrong by fifteen minutes, there are two solutions.

1) Change the listing on the website. This is in no way difficult and I really don't believe you couldn't have fixed it.

2) If you can't do this, and you are aware that the wrong time is on the website, then you should maybe think about taking the flak from the few people who turn up at 9.15 because they used the printed programme, and start the film at 9.30, seeing as the vast majority of your patrons use the website and turned up at 9.25.

Idiots.

Dear men in the sauna.

An infusion does not mean pouring an entire bucketful of water over the oven!!!
And certainly not four times in a row!

This is not a Turkish Hamam. This is a Finnish sauna which is double as hot and has an average temperature of 95 degrees C (203 F).
It is meant to be DRY.

Water turns into steam, steam scalds. Jesus, you've actually managed to SCALD me last time.

All because you men like to show off with how much pain you can take. Oh, and by the way: 95 to 100 degrees is fine. It is neither necessary not fun nor healthy to turn the heat up to 110, you machos.

Dribble a little bit of water over the coals and wave your towel around for a bit and everything's fine. Got it?

Dear Customers: we do not decide what goes on sale in our store. That's a corporate decision. So don't complain if the yarn in bin A is on sale, but the yarn in bin B, next to it, that you want, is not. No, I will not give it to you for the sale price.

READ THE GODDAMN FUCKING SALE SIGNS!
they state clearly which items are on sale.

To My Boss:

Why is it neccessary for me to be at Monday morning staff meeting? I work at night. I live 30 miles away. It's a big effing deal for me to be there!! It costs me more money in gas to come here and back than I get for the extra hour of work! Does the inconvenience you cause the night staff with this stupid edict of yours make you feel powerful? You disrupt our sleep schedules and intrude on our down time.



I get off from work at 8:00 pm on Sunday. I get home around 9:00 (since I never actually leave right at 8:00). I take medication that makes me sleepy for chronic pain. I can't take my medication on Sunday night, or I won't wake up to come to this useless meeting! So guess what? I don't get ANY sleep on Sunday night!

Power Ballads at the end of stupid movies.

There is no reason for Anistasia to get so worked up at the end of the Fantastic Four movie.

Blah

Me too!!!!

I'm also not a fan of the stupid slow ballad songs at the end of high-action/comedy anime series.

And PS, if you are watching a DVD of a TV series, and you choose the "Play All Episodes" option, why wouldn't the editors of the DVD cut out the opening theme to the show after the first episode on the DVD? I can understand how they would want to keep the title shot and the opening credits (which usually run during the first scene of the episode), and the closingf credits, but do I really need to hear "You can't take the sky from me" 6 times in a row?

Only exception to this should be if the opening theme is different each episode, like in the Simpsons.

ETA:
I realize that in some cases you can skip forward to the first scene of an episode, but in many cases if you skip forward, you miss the first scene.

WTF?

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Oooh, I'd forgotten about this thread, Im glad it's been bumped coz I was thinking of starting a similar one just this morning! (Although, in tune with my 8am mood, I thought of naming it "Bitch!")

So, two things:

1)Perfumes. I'm not crazy about them in the first place, mostly due to a minor allergy to almost any synthetic scent, but also coz they just don't smell good, most of them. especially I loathe people (ie women) who will fucking BATHE themselve son the stuff. NO, IT DOENS'T SMELL GOOD, IT'S BLOCKING MY SINUSES! And, again, in the morning, where the only thing keeping me from being a non-sentient being is the fact that my breathing is still working whether I want it to or not, excess perfume is like a brutal attack on all my body.

2) People who I walk past in the mornings when going to work:
Please stop being boring. Why do you all have to wear black? And I mean ALL. I was wearing a red beret today and I felt like a Martian. Dressing for work doens't mean you have to be unoriginal, dull, and lazy (just wear something black, regardles sof shape, design or anything and you'll be fine? Bleurgh). Suits come in other colours, you know. So do coats. So do lives.

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Originally posted by cloverheart:

1)Perfumes. I'm not crazy about them in the first place, mostly due to a minor allergy to almost any synthetic scent, but also coz they just don't smell good, most of them. especially I loathe people (ie women) who will fucking BATHE themselve son the stuff. NO, IT DOENS'T SMELL GOOD, IT'S BLOCKING MY SINUSES! And, again, in the morning, where the only thing keeping me from being a non-sentient being is the fact that my breathing is still working whether I want it to or not, excess perfume is like a brutal attack on all my body.

What she said. I hate being trapped in an aisle at the store by stinky perfume and powder - it either attacks my sinuses and makes my eyes water or makes my throat feel like it's closing shut and then I start hacking up a lung.

Usually when I start coughing and fleeing the aisle I will say loudly "Ack - Who's wearing the stinky perfume!"

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Originally posted by cloverheart:
Please stop being boring. Why do you all have to wear black? And I mean ALL.

Because there isn't anything darker yet

My hair is red, I'm very pale and am wearing neon pink nailpolish, so that's enough for me. I'm wearing all black most days, hehehe

Weaing black by personal choice is perfectly fine.
Wearing black because you're too dull to come up with a suitable working wardrobe is not fine.

*is surprised that no one has made a remark about Neil yet*